Question follow-through · 85460
Palliative Care
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to publish a national strategy for palliative and end of life care.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 27 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 29 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 21 Nov 2025 · 25 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
27 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to publish a national strategy for palliative and end of life care.
29 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Department and NHS England are currently looking at how to improve the access, quality, and sustainability of all-age palliative care and end of life care in line with the 10-Year Health Plan.Additionally, we are supporting the hospice sector with a £...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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